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I found out that Birmingham - which is where I live - is going to be the home of the new National Open Centre , designed to encourage innovation and ...
  1. 02-27-2007 #1
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    Thumbs up My city gets an open source boost

    I found out that Birmingham - which is where I live - is going to be the home of the new National Open Centre, designed to encourage innovation and give direction to open source software in the UK.

    Birmingham is already lucky enough to have Open Advantage. There was some concern in Europe that the UK didn't have a strategic vision for open source. Now it does, and I'm quite proud of this.

    It won't solve our social problems and some of the crud of city life, but it's great to see Birmingham get this instead of London. The next Gnome international conference will be held there. This could mean more FOSS adoption in the UK.
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    Congratulations.
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    Ironically, our city council thought about adopting open source for our library service, but - after long consideration - got a deal with MS instead. I was a bit annoyed.

    End users had trouble using memory sticks during software trials. The whole thing looked very unwieldy and I think they just got scared. Strange how this can happen ... and then other organisations seem to manage it with fewer problems.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fingal
    End users had trouble using memory sticks during software trials. The whole thing looked very unwieldy and I think they just got scared. Strange how this can happen ... and then other organisations seem to manage it with fewer problems.
    Perhaps (and I say this with a healthy amount of skepticism) major companies like Dell will be able to remedy the "driver problem" by leveraging their immense customer base. When Michael Dell calls your company asking for compatible drivers, you'd better listen.

    On the other hand, considering Dell has yet to decide what distribution they're using or actually offer an officially-supported Linux desktop to anyone other than corporations, I'm not exactly holding my breath.
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    well, all micky has to do is ask that they provide kernel modules of some description and they can eventually be submitted upstream to kernel.org if the companies care enough to license them appropriately.
    Here's why Linux is easier than Windows:
    Package Managers! Apt-Get and Portage (among others) allow users to install programs MUCH easier than Windows can.
    Hardware Drivers. In SuSE, ALL the hardware is detected and installed automatically! How is this harder than Windows' constant disc changing and rebooting?
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    Good news .... thus you get ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redman
    Good news .... thus you get ....

    Many thanks. I hope some good comes of this.
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    great news...
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    Quote Originally Posted by blusyit
    great news...
    Hi blusyit - welcome to LF.O
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    His post count reads 0 ???

    BTW, welcome blusyit
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